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New England, Puerto Rico also have rising hospitalization after faring better than much of the country previously
Main Street in Rockland, Maine. A growing number of counties in the state now have community Covid-19 levels categorized as high by the CDC.Photo: Lane Turner/Boston Globe/Getty Images
Some of the places that have avoided the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, including Puerto Rico and Northern New England states, are coping with elevated cases and hospitalizations as the latest highly contagious iterations of the virus circulate.
Most counties in Vermont, as well as a growing number in Maine and southern New England, now have community Covid-19 levels categorized as “high” by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention based on case and hospitalization trends. Puerto Rico recently has had the highest rate of newly reported Covid-19 cases in the U.S., along with climbing hospitalizations.